Hi All,


   Quoting: Moderator to All
 Date/Time: 01-Dec-99 / 23:21:18
   Subject: Monthly Rules Posting


Found this last version rules from  Moderator Steve Stacher & Bo Bendtsen:


 M>                International "TERMINAT" Conference Rules

 M>                 Moderator   : Steve Stacher, 2:443/888 (Fidonet)
 M>                 Moderator   : Bo Bendtsen,   bo{at}terminate.com

 M>                     --- Last revised: 27 July 98 ---

 M>    1. The topic in this conference is the terminal program Terminate
 M>       and/or utilities related to the that program, including 3rd Party
 M>       developed programs which directly support or enhance the use of
 M>       Terminate.

 M>    2. The use of the term "Terminate" within this conference is
 M>       restricted to defining a certain terminal program, the author of
 M>       which is Bo Bendtsen. Said program being commonly referred
 M>       to and properly named: Terminate

 M>       Any other use, form of discussion, or reference to the term
 M>       "Terminate" is strictly forbidden, being limited to
discussion(s)
 M>       of ONLY that specified program authored by Bo Bendtsen.

 M>    3. This is an International Support Conference. All correspondence must
 M>       be in English. Commercial business inquiries, support, questions,
 M>       items for-sale, and other non-related information should be handled
 M>       via Crash NetMail or other media as indicated by the commercial
 M>       distributors.

 M>    4. Terminate "feature" announcements, inquiries, and the general
 M>       discussion of Terminate and/or related 3rd Party developed
 M>       software as defined above, to include program technical assistance
 M>       by others from within the conference, are welcome.

 M>    5. Additional Gating of this conference into any network beyond
 M>       FidoNet is not permitted without written permission of the
 M>       Moderator and must be accompanied by a written verification of
 M>       Echolist database update before gating is allowed. Request for
 M>       such Gating should be directed to 2:443/888{at}fidonet.

 M>    6. This conference is NOT limited to FidoNet; it is open to any
 M>       network and system that wishes to carry this conference (assuming
 M>       para. 5 is followed). Messages in this conference must conform
 M>       with the FTSC (FidoNet Technical Standards Committee) format and
 M>       must contain both tear and origin lines. The tear line may not be
 M>       longer than 35 characters including the --- characters. The origin
 M>       line must fit on one 80 character wide CRT including the " #
 M>       Origin: " text.

 M>    7. Please keep the amount of quoted text down to the BARE ESSENTIALS.
 M>       Do not quote SEEN-BY and/or " # Origin: "
information unless it is
 M>       ABSOLUTELY necessary. One of the biggest costs with distributed
 M>       mail conferences is the use and ABUSE of the quote feature.

 M>    8. Your message must contain sufficient information to allow a Reply
 M>       via NetMail through normal FidoNet distribution channels.

 M>    9. Foul or harsh language is not tolerable and will not be accepted
 M>       as a standard for behavior within this conference. If you do not
 M>       like what someone has to say for personal reasons, send that
 M>       person(s) a reply using NetMail - not EchoMail.

 M>   10. Eight-bit ASCII is not allowed in this conference. All characters
 M>       in displayed message data (text/header) must be in the range 32 to
 M>       126, which rules out control characters. The ONLY exceptions to
 M>       this rule are: if you need to show someone a translation table
 M>       that contains eight-bit ASCII, and/or the default TMAIL
"arrow"
 M>       signature style.

 M>   11. File listings and advertisements are not welcome except from
 M>       authorized Terminate dealers, or from the author of Terminate. 3rd
 M>       Party developers whose programs directly support or enhance the
 M>       use of Terminate are specifically excluded from this paragraph.
 M>       Sample files and examples of batch files are welcome as they serve
 M>       a useful and constructive purpose.

 M>   12. Please keep "Thank you" and "This is a
test" messages in NETMAIL,
 M>       where they belong. People are paying a lot of money to
 M>       Import/Export this conference around the world, and if we can keep
 M>       unnecessary overhead down, everyone will be much happier.

 M>   13. Before posting queries and/or questions about problems and their
 M>       solution, please make sure you have read the documentation for the
 M>       program in question. All too frequently, the questions asked can
 M>       be answered by simply reading a few paragraphs in the program's
 M>       documentation.

 M>   14. There is currently one Moderator. Co-Moderators may be assigned as
 M>       needed. If you have a problem with someone, please inform a
 M>       Moderator about it; Do NOT post "Flames", etc. in this
 M>       conference!!

 M>   15. Messages in the Terminat conference are expected to remain "On
 M>       Topic" at ALL times. Messages not related to the actual use of,
 M>       technical support of, or related programs and utilities of,
 M>       Terminate are specifically NOT allowed in this conference.

 M>   16. If any of the official moderators inform you that your message(s)
 M>       are "Off Topic", or request that you take your theme
to NetMail,
 M>       please do so.


 M>       Steve Stacher 2:443/888{at}fidonet, sales{at}terminate.com
 M>       Moderator - TERMINAT Support Conference


 M>          THE "TERMINAT" CONFERENCE FAQ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

 M>                      --- Last revised: 27 July 98 ---

 M>    Q : What is a FAQ ?
 M>    A : Well, this is a FAQ. FAQ is short for Frequently Asked Question.
 M>        This is a list of frequently asked questions about Terminate and
 M>        TerMail, in order to answer a lot of questions within one single
 M>        document. Therefore a 'newbee' can easily learn a lot within a
 M> short
 M>        period of time.

 M>    Q: What is Terminate ?
 M>    A: Terminate is a communication program, a fax program, a fidonet
 M> mailer
 M>       program, a tosser/scanner/packer, a QWK offline reader, a
 M> filemanager,
 M>       a mini-bbs, a programming language and much much more...

 M>    Q: What is the story about these false versions ?
 M>    A: A person that used to be a dealer of Terminate was thrown out and
 M>       because of that, he decided to invent a story about having
 M>       bought the copyright and trademark. He hired some young Russian
 M>       programmers to make false freeware versions only to annoy me,
 M> fidonet
 M>       and all the other users of the real Terminate.
 M>       The current false versions in circulation are:
 M>         1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60, 1.70

 M>    Q : I'm not sure what's what, so what is what ?
 M>    A : There is sometimes a little confusion about what is Terminate,
 M>        Terminate's point-system and TerMail. In order to communicate
 M>        clearly I'll show you some screen-shots of these parts of the
 M>        program. I have cut some pieces in order to make the FAQ smaller,
 M>        but that shouldn't be any problem.

 M>    Q : What is a point ?
 M>    A : A point is a person (above all :-) ) who has got some experience
 M>        with FIDO-net and wanted to spend less money on his hobby. He got
 M>        some software (like Terminate & TerMail) and arranged with a sysop
 M>        (node) to become his 'boss'. The point can now login very fast on
 M>        the BBS and get his mail. This is done completely automatic, and
 M>        thus very fast, and thus very cheap. All his mail is already packed
 M>        saving even more money. You don't have to be a wizzkid to become a
 M>        point, but a little experience using computers and FIDO-net will
 M>        proof to be helpful. Look for TERPOINT.ZIP for more info about
 M>        points.

 M>    Q : I have a modem that Terminate doesn't seem to support, can't I use
 M>        Terminate ?
 M>    A : Of course you can use Terminate, but when Terminate was released
 M>        your modem wasn't released yet. You will have to use the Generic
 M>        modem. Normally the default settings should work just fine. If you
 M>        still can't get it to work, you will have to come up with your own
 M>        init-string. Ask for it in a modem echo, there are a lot of people
 M>        who can help you there. And remember it doesn't really matter which
 M>        program you are using, the settings will be the same with every
 M>        program. If you find good settings, Netmail them to Bo Bendtsen, so
 M>        he can put them in the next version. This way we all help to make
 M>        Terminate even better. To test if your modem is Terminate
 M> compatible
 M>        enter the following command on the terminal screen
"TERMINAT" if
 M> your
 M>        modem responds "OK" then it is alright.

 M>    Q : AVATAR/ANSI doesn't seem to work within Terminate, all the screens
 M> I
 M>        receive from a BBS are unreadable, or my modem locks up, what
 M> should
 M>        I do ?
 M>    A : Most of the time this can be solved by disabling Xon-Xoff software
 M>        flow control. You can do this from the Options menu (ALT-O),
 M>        Communications Setup, and then choose your modem. Make sure you
 M> turn
 M>        of Software flow control (Xon/Xoff) in your modem's settings as
 M>        well. You also have to turn ON Hardware flowcontrol CTS/RTS. If it
 M>        still doesn't work setup Terminate to use only ANSI for this
 M>        particular BBS. In that case make sure the BBS only sends you
 M>        ANSI-screens.

 M>    Q : What about Terminate in Windows 3.1x / Win9?
 M>    A : While it's a DOS program and therefore works best under DOS, you
 M> can
 M>        use it under MS-Windows 3.1x. Testing has shown that it works well
 M>        for most of us under Windows for Workgroups v3.11. Windows 3.10 and
 M>        Windows 3.11 are not different on the comm's part. Windows for
 M>        Workgroups however is much better suited for communications. You
 M>        should use Windows for Workgroups v3.11 if you can. I've heard from
 M>        some people Terminate performs well under Windows95/98.

 M>    Q : What about Terminate in OS/2 ?
 M>    A : It can be done of course but you'll need special comm's drivers.
 M> The
 M>        best you can use are the SIO-drivers made by Ray Gwinn (SIO145.*)
 M>        Same as with Windows, maybe in the future there will be an OS/2
 M>        version.

 M>    Q : What is the strange version number I sometimes see ?
 M>    A : This could be internal test version that the testers are allowed
 M>        to use before releasing. The test numbers will look like this:
 M>        Alpha version 4.99a01  01 = Revision number 1
 M>        Beta  version 4.99b03  03 = Revision number 3
 M>        Gamma version 4.99g09  09 = Revesion number 9
 M>        The entire test procedure for Terminate is entensive and
 M>        would take to long to explain, just remember it is done proberly
 M>        and that takes time.

 M>    Q : When is the next version coming out ?
 M>    A : Version 5 may be the last full release. A patch to correct some
 M>        minor defects is currently being developed.


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Best Regards,
      Herman Neut

 e-mail: h.neut{at}hccnet.nl

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